Still Separate Still Unequal Summary

White Public Schools vs. Minority Public Schools Are schools still segregated today? According to Jonathan Kozol’s Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid the minority schools and the white schools are segregated. Kozol went to many different schools and interviewed different ages about segregated schools. They all said the same thing; white schools have more of advantage and the minority schools do not get the options that the whites do. The differences were segregation, lack of importance, as well as the funding. The minority schools aren’t getting the attention they need to give their students the education they need. Segregation was a problem, and is still an issue today. We as a whole need to stand up for these wrongs and do something about it. Schools today are still segregated and unequal. In the public minority schools there is …show more content…
The rich schools have student enrollment whereas the minority schools just have to assume that the population is all present. Kozol observed the public Western schools like Chicago, and New York had more than 90 percent of students enrolled were African Americans or Hispanics. H used pathos when he was interviewing some of the students on how they felt about being separated from the white’s learning, and how the staff members felt about only teaching the poor minority students, rather than the rich white students, and those poverty schools are disturbing. I think the environment and the conditions have a huge impact on your learning. If you are in a bad place you are not going to be able to focus as well as if you were in a school that looked good and felt like a place to learn. Every student needs to feel like they are attending a school and not just another place. Whether it is the public white’s school or the public